Bill Text: NY A02806 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires certain for-hire vehicles to install and maintain an interior rear-facing video camera.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A02806 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A02806-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2806--B 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 27, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RAJKUMAR, ALVAREZ, REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring certain for-hire vehicles to install and main- tain an interior rear-facing video camera The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision c of section 19-508 of the administrative code 2 of the city of New York is relettered subdivision d and a new subdivi- 3 sion c is added to read as follows: 4 c. The commission shall require for-hire vehicles with a seating 5 capacity of six passengers or less that are dispatched by a livery base 6 station, other than high-volume for-hire services, to install and main- 7 tain an interior rear-facing video camera. This requirement shall not 8 limit the brand or provider of video cameras which can be utilized to 9 comply with this paragraph. Provided further that the installation and 10 use of a front-facing camera is permitted as long as the minimum 11 requirements set forth below are met, and so long as the for-hire vehi- 12 cle owner's motor vehicle insurance provider has access to the data 13 recorded by such camera unless specifically exempted by law. Such video 14 camera shall be recording at all times the vehicle is providing trans- 15 portation for hire, and at minimum shall: 16 1. capture and record any operator or passenger who enters or exits 17 the vehicle; 18 2. store, at a minimum, the sixty most recent hours of operation; and 19 3. have the ability to transmit data or otherwise provide access to 20 local law enforcement and the commission. 21 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 22 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02618-05-3